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Simon Wu is a curator and writer involved in collaborative art production and research. He has organized exhibitions and programs at the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, MoMA, and David Zwirner, among other venues. In 2021 he was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant and was featured in Cultured magazine's Young Curators series. He is a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute, was a 2018 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and is currently in the PhD program in History of Art at Yale University. He has two brothers, Nick and Duke, and loves the ocean. ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 263 ratings · 72 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy 4.10 avg rating — 263 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Edge and Other Stories: 11 BBC Radio Thrillers by Hannah Silva, Suranne Jones (Narrator), Lemn Sissay (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Will There Ever Be Another You

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Simon Wu rated a book it was amazing This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wait I LOVED this. It was so funny and heartfelt. Cover made me think it would be bad. Pasted thoughts: Fame can be a decision! and its omly a problem for white ppl or for ppl who didn’t work for it Giving someone your complete and utter attention is a ...more
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Simon Wu has read To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I get why its a classic! Cool format that its like 1) super minutiae of a family 2) like 20 years passing 3) same house but a couple ppl have died. The main lady that wanted to go to the lighthouse is dead when they get there. The style is so cerebra ...more
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Simon Wu has read Siddartha by Hermann Hesse	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Intense lots of nature metaphors Some really beautiful passages Interesting its not explicitly buddhism but kind of more universal? Govinda x Siddartha fan fic
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Simon Wu rated a book it was ok Babel by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Simon Wu rated a book really liked it Palaver by Bryan Washington	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Lonely but somehow pleasant. Impressive to make make moments where charavters feel the vastness and beauty of life palpable and not cheesy. Moved by the mother’s gay brother story but maybe I wished it had come up at least once between her and the so ...more
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Simon Wu rated a book it was amazing The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Sad and beautiful. A lot novelly of a novel than his last one, with real named characters and setting and time and plot. As a poet his ideas still resonate with each other really beautifully; you can tell he learned a lot about restraint, when to ste ...more
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“Who, and what, do we leave behind in all this middle-class striving? But also, I get it. Without this upward drive, how else could my parents have gotten me to where I am? There will be corners of this house that will always be dark to me.”
― Simon Wu, Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy

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