the louvre, the pompidou, the music your say, this is the biggest stage on the paris art scene today, and they are queuing quite literally around the block. but after today, it will be demolished along with its art. there are no complaints, only a few bird impatience to see it before the bulldozers move in. >> i came here today to check it out. people arrived very early and the queue was very long. there was no chance i would make it, but i started to come at 5:30 a.m. >> it is a condemned nine story block of council flats on the send known as tower 13. ago for ann months exhibition for artists from 18 countries. they were given several months to decorate the empty apartment block inside and out. there has been no conventional advertising. word has spread mostly for -- through conventional media. and for safety reasons, only a limited number are allowed through it at any one time. >> you can go through the work of art. you're not just to see if from a distance. you get inside it, go into the artist skin, see from one world to another. the artist began work inside the building in march