Balloons, balloons

This is a Coachella staple and immediately you know where you are when you see it and all the Polo Field festivals of years past flood back. And hey, of you're lucky, they'll even let you hold the cord.

Reflective flowers

Coachella 2011

See it live, see it later

This seems to be the view lately

Reflections

I love how they set this one up with the other art piece right behind it. Art on art!

Band of Horses

Such a great band live.

The energy of a live show can't be beat

Great light show at Alt-j

Too much

Down by the Rover at Desert Trip weekend 1

Balloons and a chair

Great art installations on the polo grounds this year. This is one of the Katrina Chairs is by Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea who imagines a bigger, more significant purpose: to elevate an entire community.

You snarling at me?

Tripping out in the Desert. Roger Waters closes the Desert Trip festival weekend 1.

Is this what brings things into focus

Art from this year’s Coachella, the “herd” – rising up to six stories (75 feet) – will almost certainly be unintentional photobombers in 2017. But despite lumbering size and vaguely mammalian forms, the sculptures are not meant to be any particular animal. Horns? Maybe those are party hats, the artists say.

Treehouse art installation

The structure, painted plywood cladding on a structural steel frame, depicts a community held aloft, like a luxury high-rise sitting apart from the less upscale but heritage-rich community where it’s built.

We won't get fooled again

Roger and Pete light it up at Desert Trip

Dusk is moving in as flowers reach for the sky

Lauryn Hill takes the main stage in 2011 at Coachella.

All lit up and showing off

And the balloons keep flying high! Such a simple element to add and yet always pleasing

Throwback to 2011

Coachella always had art installations but each new year brought larger pieces