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help guide to documenta newartnetwork.net/documenta - A mild but relentless breeze, courtesy of British artist Ryan Gander, blows through the Fridericianum in Kassel, one of the world's oldest museums. Three small sculptures by Julio Gonzáles, first shown on 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.

review here - Kassel's background and Germany's are unavoidable at Documenta 13, which opened on Saturday. The show fills the town, from your train station to Karlsaue park, from Kassel's museums to the theatres and cinemas, from houses to hotel ballrooms. Documenta takes place every 5 years, lasts 100 days, featuring 200 artists. You may be also tempted 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 brought the lake of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling an old banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; other people are filled up with moiling rapids and rushing rivers. There are sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels are a kind of storyboard, an evocation of the elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I believe, high time: geological time, the flash of a life, a passing thought. "I'll just continue till I buy it right," sings Tammy Wynette, in a snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Repeatedly 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 exactly the same thing, but always rendering it new. Documenta is stuffed with such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living as well as the dead, mysteries and miseries.