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Sarasota s Marie Selby Botanical Gardens would be shielded from losing tax exempt status under a bill that advanced in the Florida Senate Wednesday.
The legislation (SB 1214) filed by Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, was prompted by a dispute between Selby Gardens and the Sarasota County Property Appraiser, who challenged Selby s nonprofit tax exemption.
The Property Appraiser s Office has focused on an operating agreement between Selby and Michael s On East, a for-profit company, to manage food services at the gardens.
The legislation filed by Gruters and amended by him Wednesday states that a nonprofit s tax exemption is not affected so long as the predominant use of the property is for charitable, religious, scientific, or literary purposes.
Lichtenstein meets Monet at Sarasotaâs Selby Gardens
âRoy Lichtenstein: Monetâs Garden Goes Popâ is a vibrant, creative display of art and nature.
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 Monetâs House in Bloom at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, part of the Roy Lichtenstein: Monet s Garden Goes Pop, on display through June 27, 2021. [ CLIFF ROLES | Courtesy of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens ]
Updated Mar. 3
SARASOTA â As balmy weather sends people outdoors in search of natural backdrops to pepper into their social media feeds, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens ups the ante with âRoy Lichtenstein: Monetâs Garden Goes Pop.â
The unique exhibition recreates the natural beauty of Claude Monetâs garden at Giverny in France, through the lens of pop artist Roy Lichtensteinâs graphic sensibility.
Gayle Williams, Correspondent
The coronavirus pandemic has created many obstacles for performing arts organization, particularly in limiting how live shows can be presented. But it has also provided them with new opportunities.
“One of the silver linings of this pandemic is that we are bringing our music and our outdoor beauty together,” said Elisabeth Spahn about the Sarasota Orchestra’s series of outdoor concerts presented this season as SO on the Road: Parks & Partners.
Five of these concerts are scheduled now through the end of the season at locations as varied as G.T. Bray Park and Nathan Benderson Park in Manatee County and the Ringling Museum courtyard and Bay Preserve at Osprey in Sarasota County.
Claude Monet may be known as one of the founders of Impressionism, but this French painter s work is getting a pop art spin at a new exhibition in Florida. Inspired by the many paintings of Monet s own garden, the
The 15-acre campus has been transformed with the installment of large-scale versions of Monet s work as seen through the lens of Roy Lichtenstein an icon in his own right, who pioneered the pop art movement in the 1960s. The result is a colorful collision of two legends that brings a bit of France to Florida. Roy Lichtensteinâs take on Monetâs garden at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens