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At 102 years old, local artist showcases ‘one-of-a-kind’ prints at Gallery 93

Nyna Brael Polumbaum, a 102-year-old artist, is showcasing 20 of her digital prints at Gallery 93 in Brookline, Massachusetts, through August 28. The exhibition features works she created primarily in the 1990s by combining mylar collages, scanning, and early Photoshop manipulation, marking her transition from intaglio to digital printmaking due to arthritis. A public reception will be held on July 15. Polumbaum, a graduate of New York's High School of Music and Art and Cooper Union, has had a lifelong career in art, architecture, and design, and is believed to be the first 102-year-old to exhibit at this venue.

53 oil paintings in a Palestinian exhibit were lost in the 1940s. A new exhibit on display in Brookline reimagines what could have been.

A traveling exhibition titled "The Lost Paintings, A Prelude to Return" is on view at the Brookline Arts Center and Unbound Visual Arts in Brighton through December 17. The show reimagines 53 oil paintings by Palestinian-Lebanese artist Maroun Tomb, which were lost in the chaos of the Nakba and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war after his 1947 exhibition opened in Haifa on the same day the UN adopted the Partition Plan. Curators Rula Khoury, Haidi Motola, and Joëlle Tomb—Maroun's granddaughter—commissioned 53 contemporary artists from Palestine and the diaspora to create new works inspired by the original titles, using mediums including textiles, prints, paintings, sculptures, and video.

Five art exhibitions to check out around Brookline this summer

Praise Shadows art gallery in Brookline's Coolidge Corner is among five venues offering free art exhibitions this summer. The gallery presents "Pigment Spells," a solo show by Boston-based artist and Boston University professor Lucy Kim, featuring resin casts of found objects covered in oil paint. Other exhibitions include David Weinberg's "Explorations" at Gallery 93 in the Brookline Senior Center, which combines photo montages with medieval manuscripts, and Gateway Arts' "Artists Assortment," a tribute to current and former artists with disabilities featuring celebrity portraits. The roundup also highlights the accessibility of these spaces, which welcome visitors without admission fees.