HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.- The Hood Museum of Art presents "Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s." This event marks the exciting debut of the Hood’s ongoing focus on contemporary art in 2004 known as New Art Now. This exhibition features forty contemporary aritsts from North, South, and Central America, Cuba, China, and Europe, including Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Roman de Salvo, Zhaun Huan, William Kentridge, Byron Kim, Jean Lowe, Vik Muniz, and Cindy Sherman. The works in this exhibition defy categorization by style, school, or medium, but a number of key ideas recur throughout, such as the body, the construction of identity (gender, personal, social, ethnic); the role of the artist; and our relationships to everyday occurrences and objects.

Lateral Thinking is presented in partnership with the Studio Art Exhibition Program at Dartmouth College, and it is partially installed in the Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries located in Hopkins Center. Hours there are Tuesday through Saturday, 12:30 to 10 pm; and Sunday, 12:30 to 5:30 pm. Hood Museum of Art hours remain normal: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm; Wednesday until 9 pm; Sunday, 12 noon to 5 pm.