Duncan Freeman at The Chief Leader reports Scabby the Rat is in the midst of an unprecedented month-long residency.  An inflatable creature most commonly seen outside construction sites or side by side with Striking Workers, Scabby can now be glimpsed in a more rarefied atmosphere - a Fine Art Gallery.  Scabby: A Rat About Town, at the Open Source Gallery, a small showroom in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is both a tribute to the iconic rat and to the New Yorkers who picket alongside him by the Austrian artist Marlene Hausegger.  Emblazoned on Scabby are lines from the Bruce Springsteen song “Factory,” a Working Class anthem Hausegger said has been translated by an Austrian singer and is very popular in her home country.   “A lot of his music is about working life and Workers,” Hausegger said in an interview.  

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