– 2,700-Year-Old Chinese Tomb Discovered Intact: Archaeologistshave uncovered an astonishing, nearly 3,000-year-old Zhou Dynasty tomb in Luoyang,China. The four horse-and-chariot pits, seemingly undisturbed sincetheir burial in 770 BC, have well-preserved evidence of bronzeware andceramics from the early Western Zhou dynasty. The tomb also providesinsight into the funeral customs of the period: according toarcheologists, the position of the horse skeletons indicates that theywere slaughtered before burial, not entombed alive. [Daily Mail] 

– Tribute in Throwback Bits: Running a day after what would have been Queen icon Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday, the latest Google Doodle takes the form to yet another new level, presenting a full-blown animated video for the song "Don't Stop Me Now" — complete with sequences alluding to the golden age of Nintendo video-game design, which was roughly contemporaneous with the singer's death in 1991. Watch it. [Google] 

– MOCAD Director to Step Down: Luis Croquer will leave the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit after nearly three years to focus on his curatorial career. "I'm happiest as a curator," he said. "As MOCAD continues to grow, I realized I would have to spend more time as a manager." Croquer was the museum's first full-time professional director, and under his leadership, MOCAD quickly became a symbol of the international art world's renewed interest in Detroit. Deputy director Rebecca Mazzei will take over as acting director while the board searches for a replacement. [DFP]

– Chinese Censors Rip Out Ai Weiwei Article: Chinese censors have removed a scorching political screed by Ai Weiwei from the pages of Newsweek magazine. In the article, published September 5, the formerly detained artist calls Beijing "a constant nightmare" and "a city of violence." The government's censorship "puts him on a collision course with authorities," according to the Independent, which notes that Ai is not allowed to speak to foreign media, use social media, or leave Beijing under the conditions of his bail. [Independent]

– Alien Logic?: In a tortuous and "huh"-inspiring piece that seems to invent new definitions of postmodernism, Jonathan Jones argues that Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is "the first and greatest work of postmodern art." [Guardian]  

– A Ryan By Any Other Name: The contemporary art world is not lacking for artists named Ryan, according to the New York Times, and "it's as bad as 17th-century Holland, when everyone was named Jan." There are no fewer than eight Ryans currently at the forefront of the art scene: Trecartin, McNamara, Johnson, Sullivan, and, of course, McGinley, to name a few. Apparently, this profusion has led to some confusion: last fall, Ryan Sullivan was told that he had won a $25,000 grant, only to find out the organization meant to call Ryan McNamara. [NYT]

– Tyler Shields's Violent "Glee" Controversy: After photographing Lindsay Lohan being shot in the mouth, the provocative celebrity photographer has snapped a series of images of "Glee"'s Heather Morris with a black eye. In response to outraged activist groups, Shields has promised to donate proceeds from the bruise pictures to "a top domestic abuse charity." Now he just has to find someone to buy them. [Globe and Mail] 

– World's Five Best Art Magazines: Frieze co-editor Jennifer Higgie selects the five best art magazines in history, from The Yellow Book of the 19th century, which featured contributions from John Singer Sargent and Henry James, to today's Triple Canopy, the online magazine that was recently the subject of a New York Times profile. Aspen, Blast, and Minotaur also made the cut, while Rosalind Krauss's October is conspicuously absent. [FT]

– Cold War Bunker Becomes Alternative Art Space: A $4.6 billion bunker in former Yugoslavia, originally built as a shelter for President Josip Broz Tito, has been transformed into an art venue. Since May it has been the site of the exhibition "No Network: Time Machine Biennial," a mainly site-specific project exhibiting 44 artists from 17 countries through September 27. "I think this is the most expensive museum ever built in human history," joked Edo Hozic, the show's director. [NYT]

– Pipilotti Rist's New Underwear Art: The Swiss artist will string 300 pairs of white underpants along the south bank of the Thames to coincide with her solo exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery. The pants, in three sizes, will be lit from within. "From a distance," she said, "they will look like whipped cream." [Guardian]

– RIP Cambodian Artist Vann Nath: The artist was one of only a handful of survivors of the Khmer Rouge torture center Tuol Sleng, and lived to testify two years ago at the trial of his jailer. During his detainment, Vann Nath was kept alive so that he could paint portraits of the Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot. Nath's more recent paintings of torture scenes now hang on the walls of Tuol Sleng, which has been turned into a museum. He died of cardiac arrest after battling health problems for several years. He was 65. [NYT]