The former R.E.M. leader Michael Stipe has not exactly been in a rush to put out new music. R.E.M. broke up in 2011, and Stipe waited until 2018 to release his first solo song “Future, If Future.” Last year, though, Stipe said in an interview that he had 18 solo songs finished. Since then, he’s shared tracks like “Your Capricious Soul” and “Drive To The Ocean,” and he’s performed “No Time For Love Like Now,” a collaboration with Aaron Dessner’s Big Red Machine, on a couple of late-night shows. Stipe apparently now has another new song that’s part of a New York art exhibit that will soon reopen, and we get to hear a bit of it today.

NY1’s Spectrum News recently ran a story on An Introduction To Nameless Love, an installation from the artist and past Stipe collaborator Jonatan Berger. The installation is partly inspired by the late photojournalist Margaret Morton, who spent years telling the stories of the homeless people who lived in an New York subway tunnel. But the installation also features lyrics from a new Stipe song that’s about designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The NY1 news story features a brief quote from Stipe, who talks about Berger’s art: “The thing that Jonathan offers is a reservoir of thought, but there is also a lightness and beauty to it. It really has to be experienced firsthand to understand how wondrous it is.” And starting at the 1:50 mark of the video, we hear a tiny bit of the song, which features Stipe singing over a small, tootling keyboard, and which sounds like R.E.M. insofar as a song can sound like R.E.M. when the main non-Stipe sound is a small, tootling keyboard.

Check out the news story here. An Introduction To Nameless Love, which initially opened in February, is set to reopen 9/9 at New York’s Participant Inc. gallery. Apparently we’re doing art galleries again now!