Barnett Newman: Philadelphia's Museum of Art. (Philadelphia).

Beloved of intellectuals and artists alike, Newman himself was both, and historians and critics have often put his deceptively straightforward paintings into various elaborate frames: formalism, Minimalism, "the act," numerology, spirituality, and the sublime among them. Curator Ann Temkin's retrospective covers the whole career, from the Surrealist primordial soup of the '40s to the late shaped canvases. The catalogue, including essays by Temkin and art historian Richard Shiff, promises important new research on the artist, both contextually and in terms of his enduring legacy. A rare chance to see these fantastic paintings all in one place--zip, zip, hooray! Mar. 24- July 7; Tate Modern, London, Sept. 9- Jan. 5, 2003.