Tony Cragg has created some fantastic new sculpture made of dice. Just don’t take your math savant friends to the show. More images after the jump.

In addition to being strikingly beautiful, Kate MacDowell’s work is subversively thought provoking. In her artist’s statement MacDowell writes:

n my work this romantic ideal of union with the natural world conflicts with our contemporary impact on the environment.  These pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and gm crops.  They also borrow from myth, art history, figures of speech and other cultural touchstones.  In some pieces aspects of the human figure stand-in for ourselves and act out sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous transformations which illustrate our current relationship with the natural world.  In others, animals take on anthropomorphic qualities when they are given safety equipment to attempt to protect them from man-made environmental threats.  In each case the union between man and nature is shown to be one of friction and discomfort with the disturbing implication that we too are vulnerable to being victimized by our destructive practices

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David Cerny brings out the big guns with this installation in Prague.

Czech artist David Černý’s ‘Guns’ installation returned to Prague this summer where it is suspended by wires in the courtyard of the Artbanka Museum of Young Art. Earlier in the summer between June 20 and July 1, Černý’s ‘Pink Tank no. 23′ was installed on a floating pontoon on the Vltava river between Střelecký ostrov and Smetanovo nábřeží as part of the ‘Week of Freedom’ project. In a photo dated October 8, 2011, a visitor to the Artbanka Museum hoists his hands up and makes his own guns.

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Anton Tang Is the creator of these this fantastic miniature series entitled “Cardboard People.” The series consists of scores of meticulously sculpted, posted and photographed mini-scale cardboard people. View more after the jump.

Here is some more good stuff from the Pulse L.A. show. Dean Project was showing these fantastic pieces from Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers.

Continuing with their exploration of ideas of material value and the consequences of the actions we take to satisfy our desires, Berg-Myers have created a new body of works. This current exhibition is meant to provide the viewers with objects-situations where our choices are put to the test in how we understand the value of the things we do.

Some of the works in the exhibition have titles such as “All that glitters” and “As good as gold” which echo
marketing tools employed in our contemporary culture to attract with a promise of guaranteed   satisfaction if consumed.

Photography: Matt Schow for Curated

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Our favorite crocheting street artist, Olek was back hard at work over the weekend. In a similar vane of covering the Wall Street bull, her latest piece sits at the heart of Astor Place as a cover on the rotating cube sculpture.

4th dimension concrete clock uses a three dimensional clock face to allow for a unique aesthetic, as the hands pass over it. The design is described as:

A wall clock made of one solid piece from cement. Concept of linking time and space is visualized with the form of a spiral staircase that has hands on its top level continuously going down and up as time goes by. Thus, the “4th” dimension. Light and shadow also changes with time in this clock.

Check out these ridiculously cool sculptures by Katsuyo Aoki. The intricacy with which he creates the fractile-like details on these pieces is mind boggling. More images from this series after the jump.

Clarke is easily the most prominent avant-garde figure in the area of silversmithing here in the UK and has a well earned reputation for creative thinking and innovation.

Clarke now devilishly takes antique solid silver objects, treasured by many and preserved by museums and ‘messes’ with them. Clarke strips it of its value by allowing lead to erode the silver.

The first in a new collection entitled “Dead on Arrival.” will definitely take the world of silversmithing to a new level.

New work for 60|40 exhibition at Gustavsberg Konsthall Sweden. Opens 8 October until 8 January 2012.

Belgian Sculpture Wim Delvoye uses tires to create intricately carved sculptures.  The series is entitled pneu. More images after the jump.