This article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences. This is not your grandfather’s artist in the garden, not the usual sculptures and paintings simply set among the plants. The garden’s designers call their work horticultural theater, and they go at it as if they were staging a play. The Tiffany exhibition, “Tiffany: The Pursuit of Beauty in Nature,” runs through June 25. Forty-two works by Louis Comfort Tiffany serve as the reference point for the botanical interpretations, which are sprinkled throughout Selby Gardens, a 15-acre oasis on a peninsula jutting into Sarasota Bay.

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