The website for the NFT sale explains a six-step process to obtain one of these NFTs, including the standard steps of connecting a wallet and joining the allowlist, but ending with "Dedicate your NFT to a beloved one", which involves sending... their loved one a form email, apparently. My heart goes out to anyone receiving an NFT for Valentine's Day, much less a $2,000 one representing a portion of a painting smaller than a postage stamp. To anyone who thinks this is a good idea: I am begging you, please just buy your partner some flowers.
The Belvedere Museum dreams big (or, rather, small) by splitting one single painting into 10,000 Valentine's Day NFTs
In a Valentine's Day-themed stunt, the otherwise reputable Belvedere Museum in Austria decided to sell Gustav Klimt's The Kiss as NFTs. But making one NFT was apparently not enough for the museum, which decided to section the digital copy of the artwork into 10,000 individual tiles. Although The Kiss is a very large piece of artwork, at nearly 6 feet on each side (180cm × 180cm), this means each NFT buyer gets an NFT representing a scrap of the painting measuring 0.7 inches to a side (18mm × 18mm), about the size of a U.S. penny. The Belvedere Museum has, somehow, estimated that each NFT will sell for €1,850 (about $2,100). If their dreams come true, selling all 10,000 NFTs would net them €18.5 million ($21 million).