People walk inside “Spectra”, an installation by design studio Newsubstance, at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 12, 2019 in Indio, California.  (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Coachella weekend one is almost here! To get you ready so you don’t miss a minute of the fun, we compiled the ultimate list with everything you need to see, the best spots to chill and all the food and drink options available during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Let the good times roll beyond the eight stages.

ART

Coachella’s curators scour the globe for artists, architects, and designers to transform the Empire Polo Field. Newly-commissioned, large scale art installations and returning favorites offer fans art as landmark, public space, and icon — to be viewed from perspectives as diverse and dynamic as Coachella’s lineup of performers.

NEW FOR 2023

Güvenç Özel

Kumkum Fernando

Maggie West

Vincent Leroy

Robert Bose’s Balloon Chain art installation seen during day 1 of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Weekend 1 at the Empire Polo Club on April 15, 2016 in Indio, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella)

RETURNING FAVORITES

Balloon Chain by Robert Bose

Do LaB

Don Kennell

Raices Cultura

Spectra by NEWSUBSTANCE

Festivalgoers with the art installation Spectra by NEWSUBSTANCE during the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Field on April 21, 2018 in Indio, California. (Photo by Zachary Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella)

MIRAGE

A new discovery reveals a more expansive Coachella. In 2023, learn how to interact with the Mirage and unlock new festival creativity on the fields and beyond.

So what is the Mirage? Mirages have long been a desert mystery. Once thought to be optical illusions, we have now come to learn that these distortions are rifts to another layer of the festival. Energized by the collective creativity of festival fans and artists, this new layer holds many surprises waiting to be uncovered.

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