krause co. is a New York-based communications strategy and advisory firm for international arts, culture, design, and lifestyle clients. Expertise includes museums, galleries, cultural galas, art fairs, artist estates, cultural foundations, private collections, luxury brands’ arts and culture initiatives, and more. Projects range from comprehensive institutional counsel to concentrated press campaigns for individual exhibitions, launches, and events. With an overarching passion for strategic positioning, additional applied specialties are creative partnership facilitation; CSR / social impact; DEI alignment; and crisis communications.
With a small, selective, and carefully curated client roster, krause co. works with galleries including Marianne Boesky Gallery; David Nolan Gallery; and Lévy Gorvy Dayan, and arts nonprofits including the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and the Emily Mason | Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation. Alongside exhibitions and institutional campaigns for international names — like the launch of Sotheby’s Social Impact program and Fotografiska’s global expansion into the world’s largest privately held art museum — one of krause co.’s proudest successes is garnering a community-beloved art museum in Southern Vermont, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, the well-earned visibility of inclusion in four separate New York Times articles in an 11-month span. krause co.’s work also includes The Armory Show and Josh Baer’s authoritative art-world platform The Baer Faxt. See “client press” for campaign samples.
krause co. principal Molly Krause is the founding co-chair of Storm King Art Center's young patrons group, the Storm King Circle, and is on the Executive Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s young patrons group, the Whitney Contemporaries. Molly began her communications career as an intern in the press department of Christie’s. She subsequently worked at a large PR firm before establishing krause co. in 2015. She studied communication and art history at Cornell University, followed by art collection management and display at New York University. She is an alumna of Milton Academy.
On behalf of its clients, krause co. has worked with writers to secure thoughtful inclusion in Architectural Digest, Art in America, the Art Newspaper, Artforum, Artnet News, ARTnews, the Financial Times, Forbes, The Guardian, Harper's BAZAAR, i-D, Interior Design, Interview Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Time Out, Town & Country, Travel + Leisure, Vanity Fair, VICE, Vogue, W Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, WSJ., WWD, and many others.