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Today and tomorrow, the ICA screens Pietra Brettkelly's documentary on Italian artist Vanessa Beecroft, "The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins." Beecroft, best known for her performance pieces involving multitudes of unclothed lethargic models, is the art world's equivalent of Sylvia Plath. Girls embrace her as conflicted teenagers, abandon their fascination in college, as her femininity and raw insecurity seem embarrassingly naive, but by late twenties, they revisit her work and discover its complexities. But even fans of her work will have trouble interpreting Beecroft's visit to Sudan as anything other than narcissism. The Washington Post explains, "she was interested in the plight of Darfur, though she concedes that she didn't know exactly where Darfur was, and never did get there." more ›