Agnes Denes installs Living Pyramid in California for Desert X
A tiered, pyramidal installation by Hungarian-American artist Agnes Denes has been installed in the Coachella Valley for the fifth edition of the Desert X exhibition. More
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Ten outdoor music festival installations and pavilions
This week sees the start of Glastonbury festival. As summer begins, we have rounded up 10 unique pavilions installed at outdoor music festivals. More
Do Lab creates sprawling fabric "mushrooms" for Coachella stage
LA-based design studio Do Lab has created a series of fabric "mushrooms" to cover the audience and performers for one of the stages at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. More
Three large-scale and "deeply interactive" installations at Coachella 2024
Soaring, spikey plywood towers and a colourful, kinetic "settlement" by artist Morag Myerscough are among the large-scale installations at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California. More
Four monumental installations and artworks at Coachella 2023
Giant robots informed by South Asian temples and a "cyber-physical" sculpture are among the installations at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California. More
Desert X 2023 features a sculpture made of piled shipping containers
Large-scale works by 12 international artists have been installed throughout the desert landscape of California's Coachella Valley for the fourth iteration of the Desert X exhibition. More
Seven huge installations and artworks from Coachella 2022
Coachella festival has returned to the California desert after a two-year hiatus, with artworks including a steel-framed playground by Architensions and a trio of totems by Kiki van Eijk. Here are seven of the most spectacular installations. More
Architensions unveils surreal steel-framed playground at Coachella
Architecture studio Architensions has designed a series of colourful, steel-framed towers installed at California music festival Coachella. More
"The biggest problem with Coachella is that it all goes away after two weeks"
With Coachella now over, Aaron Betsky questions the value of the festival's temporary sets and large-scale installations, and if the strain that their construction and destruction places on the planet is worth it. More
Diébédo Francis Kéré's colourful towers among installations and artworks at Coachella 2019
With Coachella music festival kicking off last weekend, Dezeen has picked out five of the bright and wonderful installations filling the Californian desert site. More
California's Desert X returns with colourful and provocative installations
Installations set against the arid landscape of California's Coachella Valley for the Desert X biennial art festival include a huge orange block and a rainbow-like arch. More
Es Devlin creates "afrofuturist" scarred mask for The Weeknd's Coachella set
British designer Es Devlin has drawn on the aesthetic of afrofuturism for The Weeknd's stage set at Coachella music festival, which features a massive cracked mask animated by projection-mapped lighting. More
Installations and artworks headlining Coachella 2018
While music acts like Beyoncé entertain throngs at this year's Coachella festival, visitors are also treated to large-scale sculptures and installations across the California desert site. Here are some of our favourites from the event this month. More
The LADG envisions concrete pavilion for Coachella festival-goers
Undulating "concrete blankets" form a series of mountain-like structures in this conceptual pavilion designed by The Los Angeles Design Group for the Coachella festival. More
Coachella offers experience with art outside the white gallery, says Phillip K Smith III
Music festivals like Coachella are changing the way people experience artworks and installations, according to American artist Phillip K Smith III. More
Instagram users capture Desert X installations in California's Coachella Valley
The inaugural Desert X art festival is underway in Southern California, where visitors are using Instagram to share images of installations including an entirely mirrored cabin and a seemingly infinite tunnel into the earth. More
Coachella festival pavilion by Ball-Nogues Studio built using over a tonne of paper pulp
Ball-Nogues Studio created a sinuous orange and purple pavilion that towered over music fans at this year's Coachella music festival by blasting pigmented paper pulp over a string structure (+ slideshow). More
Neon mirrors by Phillip K Smith III created glowing beacons at Coachella
For this year's Coachella festival, American artist Phillip K Smith III created an installation of shiny cuboids that by day provided a series of mirrors, but by night were transformed into neon towers of light (+ slideshow). More
The Dome by Héctor Serrano at Coachella
Revellers at this year's Coachella festival in California can visit a silent disco inside a dome of colour-changing balls by Spanish designer Héctor Serrano (+ slideshow). More