Getting crunk with the quilts

If somebody were to stop you on the street and ask you what's wrong with hip-hop in 2006, odds are you'd say something like "There aren't enough good role models." or "The Streets." You probably wouldn't say "There aren't enough quilts." Wait, you would? Wow, then does the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston have a show for you!

After the huge success of their Beats of Basquiat series earlier this year, the MFAH, in association with Starbucks, presents the Mixed Media Music Series this Saturday night at the Audrey Jones Beck Building. Celebrate the launch of the highly anticipated new exhibit, Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, with booze, free Starbucks coffee, and some hip hop music courtesy of LA's own Breakestra and a slew of Houstonian DJs. It will be one of the few chances you'll have all year to breakdance in a high art establishment, which is to say nothing of it also being the social event of the summer. Admission is free for museum members, $5 for students (with ID, natch,) and $10 for everyone else.

The Starbucks Mixed Media Music Series is Saturday, June 10, from 8. Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt is on view until September 4, 2006 at the Audrey Jones Beck Building. For more information visit www.mfah.org.

Photo from flickr user The Bald Heretic