Michael Stipe - Installation at the Rogan Boutique

REM front man Michael Stipe recently completed an encompassing installation of cardboard alarm-clocks in a shop's window. The first leaked photograph of the installation, before the unveiling, were taken on June 26th.

The alarm clocks spill from the interior of the Rogan Boutique on Bowery, in New York City, onto the street. Connecting the new shop to its neighborhood in a time-laden display.




Stipe also released a series bronze-cast cassette tapes,

Housed in the former Bowery Lane Theater, a historic cast iron building on the Bowery in lower Manhattan, the store's dramatic interior, intensified by a sweltering late-June heat, provided the backdrop for R.E.M. front man Michael Stipe's latest turn as a sculptor in "Relics," an exhibition of his bronze castings, which opens to the public June 27 for one month.