Detroit Institute of Arts Prepares to Deaccession Little Bighorn Flag

With the economy coming back bit by bit, we haven’t heard as many controversial museum deaccessioning stories as we had last year when they seemed to pop up every few weeks (most high-profile with New York’s deaccessioning bill, the Orange County Museum of Art‘s sneaky moves, and LACMA‘s defensive push). But now the Detroit Institute of Arts has revived the talk with news that they’re planning to auction off a flag that was at General Custer’s Little Bighorn battle.