krause co. is a New York-based communications strategy and advisory firm for international arts, culture, design, and lifestyle clients. Expertise includes museums, galleries, foundations, 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 partnerships; social impact; and crisis communications.
With a small, selective, and carefully curated client roster, krause co. works with galleries including Lévy Gorvy Dayan and Marianne Boesky Gallery, and arts nonprofits including the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and the Emily Mason | Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation. Alongside institutional campaigns for international names — like Sotheby’s social impact program, marquee sales at Christie’s, and Fotografiska’s global expansion into the world’s largest privately held art museum — krause co.’s clients also include 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 the co-chair 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 and editors to secure thoughtful inclusion in Architectural Digest, Artforum, Artnet, ARTnews, the Financial Times, Forbes, Guardian, Harper's BAZAAR, Interior Design, Interview Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, the New York Times, the New Yorker, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Time Out, Town & Country, Travel + Leisure, Vanity Fair, Vogue, W Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, WSJ., WWD, and many others.