Melbourne Festival Chooses New Leader (New Direction?)

“Brett Sheehy, 49, now running the Adelaide arts festival, and a former director of the Sydney festival, will lead the 2009 and 2010 Melbourne festivals. MIAF’s current artistic director, Kristy Edmunds, presided over two festivals deemed not highbrow enough by some critics, not mass-market enough by others. Her third, which included more world-famous artists, was more kindly received.”