Promotional artwork assets for the forthcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain support this, with the "a Hideo Kojima game" information dropped from revised versions.
But the artwork, the page layouts, were truly gone, he said, and "our heroic art department had to rebuild all the art assets".
At the same time, parts of the public realm are also, sadly, waking up to the fact that artworks are assets that can be converted into cash; hence Tower Hamlets council cynically trying to sell off its Henry Moore, Old Flo.
Ten years may be too soon to tell if the Artist Pension Trust, a program that allows fine artists to create a retirement account using their own artworks as assets, is a success, but at a decade old and halfway through its investment cycle, the Trust can make at least one boast: It's bigger.
The growth of knowledge, practices and tools was thus a necessary condition for the recognition of artwork as an asset class.
Unlike some wealthy collectors who are criticized for using tax breaks to underwrite private collections that offer little access to the public, Mr. Lauder is widely praised for making his artwork a community asset.
His exquisite artwork is an asset to any collection.
Asset sales last year that resulted in a capital gain or loss are reported on Schedule D. This return includes only sales of stocks and mutual fund distributions, but sales of real estate, artwork and other assets, and even municipal bonds (only the interest is tax-exempt), would also be reported here.
It doesn't matter how old or nostalgic the artwork or any other asset is.
The money would be raised mostly by selling Copia's meager remaining physical assets, like artwork, wine, kitchen equipment and the contents of the gift shop.
He had been appointed by a federal judge in Manhattan to try to locate and recover Mr. Dreier's assets — homes, artwork, cars and whatever else could be tracked down — so they could be liquidated to repay the victims of his crimes.
