Urban eXperiment – Secret Paris restoration

Wired has a great story on Urban eXperiment in Paris titled The New French Hacker-Artist Underground. I’ve heard little bits about Untergunther through other stories via Urban Exploration, but Jon Lackman gives a fresh narrative to the information. UX’s most sensational caper (to be revealed so far, at least) was completed in 2006. A cadre …

Untergunther cleared over charges from fixing the Panthéon’s clock

The Guardian has good news on the fascinating Untergunther group in Paris: Four members of an underground “cultural guerrilla” movement known as the Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France’s cultural heritage, were cleared on Friday of breaking into the 18th-century monument… For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon’s unsuspecting …