The Judd Foundation has restaged, almost exactly, the 1993 exhibition of Korean painter Yun Hyong-keun that Donald Judd mounted at 101 Spring Street, thirty-three years on. The recreation is on view now at the SoHo building, Judd's former home and studio, now a museum run by the foundation.

The two artists met in 1991, when Judd travelled to Seoul for a solo exhibition and noticed a group of Yun's paintings left behind from the previous show at the gallery: dark blocks of colour on raw canvas. Intrigued, he asked to meet the painter, and a friendship followed. Judd invited Yun to show in Manhattan, and in 1993 the pair chose about half a dozen of Yun's austere paintings for the ground floor of 101 Spring Street. Judd hosted a dinner on the opening night. Flavin Judd has recalled that perhaps twenty people saw the original show.

The restaging has brought the two families together. Flavin Judd and Yun Seong-ryeol, Yun's son, spoke together in the basement of 101 Spring Street about a bond formed between two men born within a few months of each other in 1928, on opposite sides of the world, who shared no language: Judd spoke no Korean and Yun no English, yet Yun Seong-ryeol said his father felt they understood each other intuitively. The younger Yun also recalled his father buying one of Judd's works in the early 1990s for exactly the money in his bank account, and Judd asking, as a farewell gift, for a Korean flag to fly at his Chinati Foundation in Texas, a plan that only came about after Judd's death.

Yun, who died in 2007 aged 79, is now regarded as one of the most important Korean artists of the twentieth century; Judd died only a couple of months after the 1993 SoHo show, aged 65. The two men are also shown together in a large exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curated by the BTS musician RM, while in Seoul a Judd work Yun bought hangs in the artist's former home and studio, recently opened to the public.