Fear Not These Murals: Brian Rea's Art Is What Keeps Him Up at Night

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What's your worst fear? Ignorance? Credit cards? Smallpox? Illustrator Brian Rea has collected so many fears over the years that they fill up a 7-meter-by-3.5-meter wall. An exhibition entitled Murals that opened at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona last week gave Rea a chance to not only face, but also trace, his worst fears.

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Rea keeps many lists. During his last year in New York (2008) he began taking inventory of the things he and other people around him were worried about. "After...