The artistic activities, that haven't been so far much explored by French geographers, belong to creative activities, that contribute to the metropolitan attractivity. The exemple of the visual arts in Paris and Berlin allows us to define what we called artistic centralities. Those artistic nodes -heritage nodes, well established, emerging or short-lived nodes- participate to the specificity of urban centralities as they have consequences on the attractivity degree of an urban district, of the whole city. A systemic study of the artistic activities make in that way the organisation as the touristic attractivity of these centralities understandable at different scales.Les activités artistiques, peu étudiées en tant que telles par la géograph...