This is NPR's LifeKit and I'm TKJuTes.

Finding art for your home can be purely decorative,

but it can also be a lot more.

The way you adorn your home can be a form of self-expression

and a way to tell personal histories.

For me, the pieces in my home tell a story about who I am.

So I wanted to talk to one of my favorite curators about art in the home.

How do you take the agency in your own space to say,

this is really valuable and this is the object or set of objects

that when someone walks through the threshold of my home,

I guess in my home, how do I tell them who I am?

And so whether something is art or not is less interesting to me,

it's really more what kind of stories do we want to tell for ourselves in our home space?

That's Kimberly Drew.

I am an independent curator and author based in Brooklyn, New York.

I am the co-editor of Black Futures, along with Jenna Wortham,

and the author of This Is What I Know About Art.

We talked about the how when it comes to finding and hanging art.

That piece behind me, like I couldn't, it was like a unconventional size,

and I couldn't find a frame for it.

What I wanted it and I wanted to wake up to it.

I didn't want it in my living room.

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