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help guide to documenta review here - A light but relentless breeze, courtesy of British artist Ryan Gander, blows from 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, stand in the draught. It's the wind of history, an air of uncertainty and impermanence. We are blown about.

read more - Kassel's history and Germany's are unavoidable at Documenta 13, which opened on Saturday. The show fills the city, from the train station to Karlsaue park, from Kassel's museums to its theatres and cinemas, from houses to hotel ballrooms. Documenta takes place every five-years, lasts 100 days, featuring 200 artists. You could be also influenced to travel further: to Kabul, where an Afghan outpost of the exhibition continues; in order to Alexandria, Cairo and Banff, where more related events consider place.

read more - Tacita Dean has had the lake of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling an early banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; others are full of moiling rapids and rushing rivers. You will find sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels are a sort of storyboard, an evocation of your elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I believe, high time: geological time, the flash of the life, a passing thought. "I'll just carry on till I get it right," sings Tammy Wynette, inside a snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Over and over Wynette sings the saying. In a nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among some of the vessels and objects he painted and repainted, year in year out, 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.