Director Calls Melbourne Arts Centre ‘Obscene Cluster of Pimples’

Michael Kantor, artistic director of Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre (and a nephew of Rupert Murdoch), has described Australia’s answer to Lincoln Center as “that badly designed and ugly shrine to mediocrity … [that] ghettoises rather than centralises artistic endeavour … [and ought] to sink into the ground and be swallowed back into the swamp it always was.”