So how did all of this squabbling over the museum’s collection of masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Diego Rivera come about?

“Detroit Art City,” a new documentary premiering on Detroit Public Television and produced by Genevieve Savage, hopes to answer that question. Narrated by Angelo B. Henderson, a Pulitzer Prize winner and Detroit radio host, the film tells the story of the DIA’s relationship to the city and how its fate was placed in the hands of a bankruptcy judge and an emergency manager.