“Hey, there’s some kind of painting there on that wall!” Kentucky architect Moseley Putney still remembers the precise moment in September 2022 when a carpenter on the job at the Billy Goat mixed-use development in Louisville called him over to inspect the glimpses of color underneath the drywall in one of the ground-floor spaces. Putney was instantly transported to another era when he realized that the brick-walled space he was renovating, slated for a gym, still held the mural by artist and activist David Wojnarowicz that he had seen nearly four decades earlier, just days after it was painted in 1985. The building, once home to the Kentucky Lithography Company, was converted into residential apartments in 1986. Its owners at the time, apparently aware of the mural’s significance, erected a stud wall over it that maintained the integrity of the work, so that what Putney uncovered was remarkably intact. That the work survived, however, was news to the David Wojnarowicz Foundation and ...