An interview with carriage trade director Peter Scott by Veronika Molnar

Is New York anything like the city we’ve "known" from the movies or our Instagram feeds? While many people seek after the imaginary face of the city filled with success, fame and glamour as suggested by the mass media, the real- life experience is often neglected for a filtered, better version. Both in his curatorial and artistic work, Peter Scott attempts to observe the flipside of billboards and real-estate ads to address issues of urban experience, lifestyle, culture and the mediatized representations of the changing city. Picture City III - exhibited in carriage trade, a non- profit gallery ran by Peter - focuses on his major concerns in the form of a group show, hosting works of André Kertész, Cindy Sherman and Stanley Kubrick. Along with Peter’s recent work, we discussed the reverse suburbanization of New York, and the role of Facebook as a neo-Victorian social register for the digital age.