Beecroft also showed paintings made from stills of past performances, which are always taken by Armin Linke - an Italian photographer whose specialty is art performances. The portraits have something in common with Rita Ackerman's baby-faced drawings, Japanese mangas and virgin Modigliani women (of which there are none, by the way). They stare at you in pale colors, quickly scumbled on white grounds. In contrast to the performers, they seem eerily alive. But it's the performances that really goose your flesh.

JEFF RIAN is a writer living in Paris.