Exploring the Legacy of Blek le Rat Art
If you've ever spent time wandering the backstreets of Paris and spotted a small, stenciled rodent scurrying along a doorway, you've come face-to-face with the foundation of blek le rat art. It's pretty wild to think that a simple stencil of a rat sparked a global movement, but that's exactly what happened back in the early 1980s. Long before street art became a multi-million dollar gallery industry, Xavier Prou—the man behind the moniker—was out there in the dark, changing how we look at city walls forever. ...