Look forward to these new exhibits at DFW galleries and museums in September

It's finally September, the best month of the year, and with a new month comes new featured exhibits. Here are 4 exhibits happening in Dallas and Fort Worth.

Antony Gormley at the Nasher Sculpture Museum

Free Sunday at Dallas Museum of Art

Every first Sunday of the month is free admission at the Dallas Museum of Art. Guests who visit the Museum on the first Sunday of each month will have the opportunity to experience exhibitions including Return to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama at no cost, in addition to on-site programs and over 5,000 years of permanent collection works. Generous support is provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All programs. Free first Sundays also includes Open Studio from noon to 4 pm and a docent-led Collection Highlights Tour from 2 to 3 pm.

'90 Years of Impact: Theta Alpha's Legacy in Dallas' at the African American Museum

This exhibit celebrates nine decades of service, leadership, and community in Dallas. Through curated artifacts, archival photographs, and interactive displays, it honors the chapter’s milestones—from its founding in 1935 through transformative programs that shaped education, civic engagement, and social justice in North Texas. Visitors are invited to explore how Theta Alpha’s commitment to excellence and community has left an indelible impact—a legacy still thriving today. It runs from September 1 - November 30.

Groundbreakers: Post-War Japan and Korea from the DMA Collection

Hosted at The Crow Museum at UT Dallas, the exhibit brings together artists who played with materiality, space, and performance in postwar Japan and Korea after the 1950s. Moving beyond the hand, some artists used unexpected parts of their bodies to make their marks: Shiraga painted with his feet and Matsutani used his mouth to create vinyl bubbles. By extension, their bodily performances became part of their art. The objects and paintings themselves are testaments to the ephemeral nature of their energetic performance. It's on display from September 6 through July 26, 2026.

SURVEY: Antony Gormley

The Nasher presents a survey of work by celebrated artist Antony Gormley, exhibiting what the artist describes as an investigation of what sculpture is and what it can do. In the first major museum survey of Antony Gormley’s (b. 1950, United Kingdom) work in the United States, the exhibition, which spans the breadth of Gormley’s career from experimental work of the early 1980s to the present, in the words of the artist, “investigates what sculpture is and what it can do.” In addition to the work shown at the museum, the artist will debut a project installed on the rooftops of skyscrapers in and around Downtown Dallas. SURVEY: Antony Gormley will be on view from September 13, 2025 to January 4, 2026.

Myth and Marble Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection

This veritable “collection of collections” was formed in the nineteenth century by Prince Giovanni Torlonia and his son Prince Alessandro primarily through the purchase of several groups of ancient sculpture assembled in early modern Rome, as well as through extensive archaeological excavations on Torlonia estates. Now, for the first time, this exhibition brings to North America fifty-eight masterpieces from Italy’s storied Torlonia Collection, from large-scale figures of gods and goddesses to portraits of emperors and magnificent funerary monuments. It will be on display from September 14- January 25, 2026.