QUICK TAKES - April 11, 2009
Readers might have done a double-take when they saw Friday’s edition of the Courier-Journal newspaper in Louisville, Ky.
The front page was reproduced as an artist’s rendering, from photographs to type -- even the masthead. Only the bar code was untouched.
The hand-drawn replica, by Turkish conceptual artist Serkan Ozkaya, is a project by 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.
“We are in the business of communication. This is just another way of doing that,” said Arnold Garson, publisher of the Courier-Journal. “I hope it’s exciting, surprising to our readers.”
The replica front page took six people about one hour to produce. Ozkaya worked with a team of five University of Louisville art students.
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