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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Readers might have done a double-take when they saw Friday’s edition of The Courier-Journal.
The front page was reproduced in its entirety as an artist’s rendering, from photographs to type — even the masthead. Only the bar code was untouched.
The original Page One is actually on Page A3 in the Friday edition.
The hand-drawn replica, by Turkish conceptual artist Serkan Ozkaya, 36, represents a public art partnership among the artist, the newspaper and artwithoutwalls, a Louisville-based nonprofit that strives to bring art to new audiences in nontraditional places.
The Courier-Journal, owned by Gannett Co., said the artist has worked on similar hand-copying projects at four other newspapers.
