Today’s Courier-Journal, a Gannett daily newspaper out of Louisville, KY, is a work of art – literally.

The front page of today’s edition sports a hand-drawn cover produced by Turkish conceptual artist Serkan Ozkaya, a replica of the real front page (which appears on A3).

“We are in the business of communication,” said Publisher Arnold Garson. “This is just another way of doing that. I hope it’s exciting, surprising to our readers.”

The cover art represents a public art partnership among the newspaper, a local organization called artwithoutwalls and Turkish conceptual artist Serkan Özkaya.

Özkaya, 36, has done similar hand-copying projects at newspapers in Turkey, Germany and Sweden, as well as The New York Times, though The Courier-Journal’s collaboration is the first involving an American paper’s front page.

You can download a pdf of the entire front page here.