Whats the deal with those massive, eerily lifelike sculptures of swimmers on Rodeo Drive?

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Set us as preferred The gigantic sculptures, though sedentary, have been on tour.They began in New York City, on Park Avenue, from 34th Street to 39th Street in Murray Hill.

Then they made their way down Manhattan to the Seaport, beside the Brooklyn Bridge.One statue (fittingly named “The Diver”) traversed the Atlantic ocean to Paris, where he arched proudly in front of the Eiffel Tower for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Then the pieces made their way to Chicago, where they lined Michigan Avenue from the Wrigley Building north toward Oak Street.Now, 10 of the monumental sculptures — Carole Feuerman’s “Monuments of Stillness” — have journeyed west on the back of two flatbeds and one enclosed truck to Beverly Hills, where they flank Rodeo Drive from Dayton Way to South Santa Monica Boulevard, along the Walk of Style, alongside Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Bottega Veneta, Fendi, Gucci and Prada, where they will remain through sometime next year.(On their way out west, they made a pit stop in Palm Desert at Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery to be unpacked, inspected and given any necessary touch-ups.)“This is a project that I always wished I’d have, and I always wanted to have my work [be] public art because public art, to me, is people’s art,” Feuerman said on a video call late last month.

“People, kids walking along the street, everybody can take advantage of public art.”Exactly that happened on Monday morning, in the bright sunlight of a cloudless sky.Yal Liu and 7-year-old Zoe were visiting Rodeo Drive for the first time from China, and the mother stopped to snap a picture of her daughter with “Patience.” The 7-foot-long sculpture is dressed in a white bathing suit, and leans back in peace, ankles crossed.

The model for this piece was Feuerman’s doctor, Ho...