With The New Old Masters, an exhibition that asserts the vitality of contemporary Californian neo-classicism, Donald Kuspit brings his critical voice to the West Coast in curatorial form. This is no small occasion. Kuspit, after all, is the kind of art critic who strives neither to direct the mainstream of artistic discourse nor to change its course, but to stand athwart it, skeptical (but not necessarily dismissive) of its premises and engaged most of all in widening its discourse with positions--not proscriptions--of his own.