Throwback Thursday! “If his cooking is close to art, then Mr. Adrià is close enough to being an artist to merit the exuberant, engrossing overview of the graphic side of his work at the Drawing Center.” Those were The New York Times’ Roberta Smith’s words when reviewing our show featuring the work of Ferran Adrià, arguably the most important avant-garde chef of the 21st Century, and leader of the iconic restaurant in Catalonia El Bulli. The exhibition was appropriately named Notes on Creativity as it emphasized the role of drawing in Adrià’s quest to understand the creative process. We presented numerous examples of drawings, diagrams, notes, notebooks, pictograms, prototypes, and an installation of 247 plasticine food models by Adrià and his various collaborators at El Bulli. All of these works came from his restaurant that defied culinary conventions, a place where Adrià encouraged his team to deconstruct the cooking process. Our exhibition, which took place three years after El Bull...