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Auctioneers and curators say India's art market is witnessing an unprecedented boom, driven by a surge of art fairs, galleries, and exhibition spaces across cities and towns.

Yet in their exhaustive, three-part account of Cooper’s life—the first two are by Mr. Clark, a biographer, and the third by Mr. Calvocoressi, a modern-art curator—they aim to resurrect another Cooper as well.

Downstairs, Critter Cove, still mostly empty, will feature live animals, and a Collections & Conservation area will show museum curators at work.

The current exhibition was pulled together with the help of an expanded network of scholars, archivists, curators and historians.

It is an institutionally authorized history, published by the Smithsonian’s publishing arm and written by Tom D. Crouch, a curator emeritus of the National Air and Space Museum.