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guide to documenta read more - A mild but relentless breeze, thanks to British artist Ryan Gander, blows through the Fridericianum in Kassel, one of many world's oldest museums. Three small sculptures by Julio Gonzáles, first shown at the second Documenta show in 1959, stay at home the draught. It's the wind of history, an aura of uncertainty and impermanence. We're blown about.

documenta - Kassel's history and Germany's are unavoidable at Documenta 13, which opened on Saturday. The show fills town, from the place to Karlsaue park, from Kassel's museums to its theatres and cinemas, from houses to hotel ballrooms. Documenta takes place every 5 years, lasts 100 days, featuring 200 artists. You may be also influenced to travel further: to Kabul, where an Afghan outpost with the exhibition continues; or Alexandria, Cairo and Banff, where more related events are taking place.

review here - Tacita Dean has had the lake of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling an old banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; others are filled with moiling rapids and rushing rivers. You can find sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels are a kind of storyboard, an evocation of an elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I think, high time: geological time, the flash of your life, a passing thought. "I'll just keep on till I recieve it right," sings Tammy Wynette, in a snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Over and over Wynette sings the phrase. In a nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among a few of the vessels and objects he painted and repainted, every year, in the dusty room in Bologna. Morandi was always doing the same thing, but always which makes it new. Documenta is full of such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living as well as the dead, mysteries and miseries.