Naples, Box for toilet articles, c. 1745, Gift of Mrs. Theodora Lang and the Minneapolis Foundation: Ankeny Family Fund

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell ǀ The Art of Beauty

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell reveals four centuries’ worth of beauty secrets using rare surviving toilette objects and images from the MIA and other collections. The tools of the toilette testify to changing tastes and lifestyles as the ostensibly private ritual of dressing has long been a public performance of consumption and display, chronicled in fashion plates, portraits, and caricatures.

Chrisman-Campbell is an independent scholar and consultant for The Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, and Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and has been a research scholar for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

$10; $5 MIA Members, Free to the Decorative Arts Affinity Group. To reserve tickets, call (612) 870-6323 or reserve tickets online.

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