Tibor M. Kalman
@kalmantibs.bsky.social
Building a bridge across the Atlantic, with steel beams and rivets. 🙏🏼🌎 🕊️
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
— Søren Kierkegaard
Budapest HU║Long Beach CA
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
— Søren Kierkegaard
Budapest HU║Long Beach CA
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Tibor M. Kalman
@kalmantibs.bsky.social
· Nov 11
a starry night sky with trees silhouetted against it
ALT: a starry night sky with trees silhouetted against it
media.tenor.com
“Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972.
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972.
February 11, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Édouard Cibot, French painter, 1799–1877.
Anne Boleyn in the Tower, 1835.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Musée Rolin, Autun, France | Virtual Art Museum
Anne Boleyn in the Tower, 1835.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Musée Rolin, Autun, France | Virtual Art Museum
February 11, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Édouard Cibot, French painter, 1799–1877.
Anne Boleyn in the Tower, 1835.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Musée Rolin, Autun, France | Virtual Art Museum
Anne Boleyn in the Tower, 1835.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Musée Rolin, Autun, France | Virtual Art Museum
Photo fit for a Renaissance painting. The Prime Minister in the Hungarian Parliament, surrounded by party apparatchiks, depicting strain & concern due to sagging pre-election polls heading into April showdown with surging democratic opposition leader Péter Magyar.
February 11, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Photo fit for a Renaissance painting. The Prime Minister in the Hungarian Parliament, surrounded by party apparatchiks, depicting strain & concern due to sagging pre-election polls heading into April showdown with surging democratic opposition leader Péter Magyar.
William Degouve de Nuncques, Belgian painter, 1867–1935.
Hamlet in the Snow, 1911.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Illusions
Hamlet in the Snow, 1911.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Illusions
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 PM
William Degouve de Nuncques, Belgian painter, 1867–1935.
Hamlet in the Snow, 1911.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Illusions
Hamlet in the Snow, 1911.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Illusions
"Josephine Baker was an international icon, who was also a WWII spy for the French Resistance. Baker used her celebrity to move through elite European society & collect information on Nazi Germany. Her bravery earned her France’s highest military honors."
🕵️♀️🏆💐
📷 From The Root©️
🕵️♀️🏆💐
📷 From The Root©️
February 10, 2026 at 10:19 PM
"Josephine Baker was an international icon, who was also a WWII spy for the French Resistance. Baker used her celebrity to move through elite European society & collect information on Nazi Germany. Her bravery earned her France’s highest military honors."
🕵️♀️🏆💐
📷 From The Root©️
🕵️♀️🏆💐
📷 From The Root©️
Eugen Dücker, German-Russian painter, 1841–1916.
Fisherman's Wife on the Beach, 1875.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Neumeister München | Virtual Art Museum
Fisherman's Wife on the Beach, 1875.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Neumeister München | Virtual Art Museum
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Eugen Dücker, German-Russian painter, 1841–1916.
Fisherman's Wife on the Beach, 1875.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Neumeister München | Virtual Art Museum
Fisherman's Wife on the Beach, 1875.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Neumeister München | Virtual Art Museum
"The red-headed bunting is a passerine bird. It breeds in Central Asia, in open dry spaces with scattered bushes, and winters in agricultural fields. Song starts out with dry, rasping notes, then turns into a more fluid-sounding jumble."
🙏🏼🌏🕊️
📷 Manjula Mathur©️ | Wondershots
🙏🏼🌏🕊️
📷 Manjula Mathur©️ | Wondershots
February 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM
"The red-headed bunting is a passerine bird. It breeds in Central Asia, in open dry spaces with scattered bushes, and winters in agricultural fields. Song starts out with dry, rasping notes, then turns into a more fluid-sounding jumble."
🙏🏼🌏🕊️
📷 Manjula Mathur©️ | Wondershots
🙏🏼🌏🕊️
📷 Manjula Mathur©️ | Wondershots
Never got into Reggaeton or Latin music, don't speak Spanish, can't dance Salsa, and had a misplaced, unsubstantiated aversion to Bad Bunny, the global superstar. Something *this* popular can't possibly be my cup of tea. Well, I was abjectly wrong. Absolutely love this man. ❤️🇵🇷
a woman in a blue dress is dancing with a man in a white suit in a stadium with the words music on the bottom
ALT: a woman in a blue dress is dancing with a man in a white suit in a stadium with the words music on the bottom
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Never got into Reggaeton or Latin music, don't speak Spanish, can't dance Salsa, and had a misplaced, unsubstantiated aversion to Bad Bunny, the global superstar. Something *this* popular can't possibly be my cup of tea. Well, I was abjectly wrong. Absolutely love this man. ❤️🇵🇷
Michele Catti, Italian painter, 1855-1914.
Porta Nuova, 1908.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Galleria d'arte Moderna, Palermo, Italy | Glassbauch
Porta Nuova, 1908.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Galleria d'arte Moderna, Palermo, Italy | Glassbauch
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Michele Catti, Italian painter, 1855-1914.
Porta Nuova, 1908.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Galleria d'arte Moderna, Palermo, Italy | Glassbauch
Porta Nuova, 1908.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Galleria d'arte Moderna, Palermo, Italy | Glassbauch
"You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.”
― Pip to Estella, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 English Literature
― Pip to Estella, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 English Literature
February 10, 2026 at 12:25 PM
"You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.”
― Pip to Estella, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 English Literature
― Pip to Estella, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 English Literature
René Magritte, Belgian painter, 1898-1967.
Le Blanc-Seing, The Blank Signature, 1965.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | Painting and Fine Arts
Le Blanc-Seing, The Blank Signature, 1965.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | Painting and Fine Arts
February 9, 2026 at 11:17 PM
René Magritte, Belgian painter, 1898-1967.
Le Blanc-Seing, The Blank Signature, 1965.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | Painting and Fine Arts
Le Blanc-Seing, The Blank Signature, 1965.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | Painting and Fine Arts
"One of my favorite things here in the North is just sitting and watching the weather. The constant changes fascinate me. Especially during winter when the golden light lasts for hours."
Lofoten Islands, Norway 🇳🇴, 2026.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Christian Hoiberg Photography©️
Lofoten Islands, Norway 🇳🇴, 2026.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Christian Hoiberg Photography©️
February 9, 2026 at 9:57 PM
"One of my favorite things here in the North is just sitting and watching the weather. The constant changes fascinate me. Especially during winter when the golden light lasts for hours."
Lofoten Islands, Norway 🇳🇴, 2026.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Christian Hoiberg Photography©️
Lofoten Islands, Norway 🇳🇴, 2026.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Christian Hoiberg Photography©️
"Since the unrest began in late December, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency confirmed the deaths of 6,872 civilian protesters in Iran 🇮🇷."
— BBC
The Iranian regime must be held accountable for this unspeakable carnage; the mass murder of its own citizens.
💔🕯️🕊️
— BBC
The Iranian regime must be held accountable for this unspeakable carnage; the mass murder of its own citizens.
💔🕯️🕊️
February 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
"Since the unrest began in late December, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency confirmed the deaths of 6,872 civilian protesters in Iran 🇮🇷."
— BBC
The Iranian regime must be held accountable for this unspeakable carnage; the mass murder of its own citizens.
💔🕯️🕊️
— BBC
The Iranian regime must be held accountable for this unspeakable carnage; the mass murder of its own citizens.
💔🕯️🕊️
Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter, 1904-1989.
Galatea of the Spheres, 1952.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain
Galatea of the Spheres, 1952.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain
February 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter, 1904-1989.
Galatea of the Spheres, 1952.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain
Galatea of the Spheres, 1952.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain
A guide to hearts:
❤️ unconditional, universal love
💔 grieving, broken heart
❤️🩹 incrementally healing heart
💖 sparkling, effervescent love
💘 doting, romantic love
❤️🔥 mad, passionate love
💝 caring, compassionate love
🖤 dark, callous heart
🤍 peaceful, tranquil heart
❤️ unconditional, universal love
💔 grieving, broken heart
❤️🩹 incrementally healing heart
💖 sparkling, effervescent love
💘 doting, romantic love
❤️🔥 mad, passionate love
💝 caring, compassionate love
🖤 dark, callous heart
🤍 peaceful, tranquil heart
a woman is smiling and says i 'll try to remember that
ALT: a woman is smiling and says i 'll try to remember that
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
A guide to hearts:
❤️ unconditional, universal love
💔 grieving, broken heart
❤️🩹 incrementally healing heart
💖 sparkling, effervescent love
💘 doting, romantic love
❤️🔥 mad, passionate love
💝 caring, compassionate love
🖤 dark, callous heart
🤍 peaceful, tranquil heart
❤️ unconditional, universal love
💔 grieving, broken heart
❤️🩹 incrementally healing heart
💖 sparkling, effervescent love
💘 doting, romantic love
❤️🔥 mad, passionate love
💝 caring, compassionate love
🖤 dark, callous heart
🤍 peaceful, tranquil heart
Rubens Santoro, Italian painter, 1859-1942.
A Family Outing on a Venetian Canal, c. 1890.
Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Anthony Macchiarulo | Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art
A Family Outing on a Venetian Canal, c. 1890.
Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Anthony Macchiarulo | Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art
February 9, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Rubens Santoro, Italian painter, 1859-1942.
A Family Outing on a Venetian Canal, c. 1890.
Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Anthony Macchiarulo | Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art
A Family Outing on a Venetian Canal, c. 1890.
Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Anthony Macchiarulo | Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, 1853–1890.
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, 1885.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Painting and Fine Arts
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, 1885.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Painting and Fine Arts
February 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, 1853–1890.
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, 1885.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Painting and Fine Arts
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, 1885.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands | Painting and Fine Arts
February 9, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Hey MAGAs, Bad Bunny is gone. Really provocative stuff. Some Latin music, dancing, a wedding scene, more dancing, flags from Western Hemisphere brought out, US flag in the front.
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” ❤️
How on earth will we survive this?
#SuperBowl
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” ❤️
How on earth will we survive this?
#SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Hey MAGAs, Bad Bunny is gone. Really provocative stuff. Some Latin music, dancing, a wedding scene, more dancing, flags from Western Hemisphere brought out, US flag in the front.
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” ❤️
How on earth will we survive this?
#SuperBowl
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” ❤️
How on earth will we survive this?
#SuperBowl
I was today years old.
"Every 26 seconds, the Earth shakes. Not a lot — certainly not enough that you’d feel it — but just enough that seismologists on multiple continents get a measurable little 'blip' on their detectors. No explanation since discovery in 1960s."
📷 Discover©️
"Every 26 seconds, the Earth shakes. Not a lot — certainly not enough that you’d feel it — but just enough that seismologists on multiple continents get a measurable little 'blip' on their detectors. No explanation since discovery in 1960s."
📷 Discover©️
February 9, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I was today years old.
"Every 26 seconds, the Earth shakes. Not a lot — certainly not enough that you’d feel it — but just enough that seismologists on multiple continents get a measurable little 'blip' on their detectors. No explanation since discovery in 1960s."
📷 Discover©️
"Every 26 seconds, the Earth shakes. Not a lot — certainly not enough that you’d feel it — but just enough that seismologists on multiple continents get a measurable little 'blip' on their detectors. No explanation since discovery in 1960s."
📷 Discover©️
Claude Monet, French painter, 1840-1926.
Le Moulin de Limetz, 1888.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
Le Moulin de Limetz, 1888.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
February 9, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Claude Monet, French painter, 1840-1926.
Le Moulin de Limetz, 1888.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
Le Moulin de Limetz, 1888.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
"Arctic dreams in Scoresbysund, Greenland 🇬🇱. One week aboard the Opal schooner — living on the sea, landing by zodiac, and photographing ice, wilderness, and silence like nowhere else on Earth."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Marcellian Tan Photography©️
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Marcellian Tan Photography©️
February 8, 2026 at 10:36 PM
"Arctic dreams in Scoresbysund, Greenland 🇬🇱. One week aboard the Opal schooner — living on the sea, landing by zodiac, and photographing ice, wilderness, and silence like nowhere else on Earth."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Marcellian Tan Photography©️
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Marcellian Tan Photography©️
Congratulations to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra for their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall last night in New York.
Performing Gustav Mahler's grandiose, breathtaking Third Symphony in such a historic venue must have been exhilarating.
🙏🏼🎼🕊️
📷 Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar©️
Performing Gustav Mahler's grandiose, breathtaking Third Symphony in such a historic venue must have been exhilarating.
🙏🏼🎼🕊️
📷 Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar©️
February 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Congratulations to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra for their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall last night in New York.
Performing Gustav Mahler's grandiose, breathtaking Third Symphony in such a historic venue must have been exhilarating.
🙏🏼🎼🕊️
📷 Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar©️
Performing Gustav Mahler's grandiose, breathtaking Third Symphony in such a historic venue must have been exhilarating.
🙏🏼🎼🕊️
📷 Budapesti Fesztiválzenekar©️
Tonight, as Bad Bunny sings in his native Spanish, sharing the stage with Californian punk rockers, Green Day, I'll reminisce growing up in a bilingual, immigrant family. I'll ponder the beauty and genius of America; a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages.
❤️🇺🇸🕊️
#SuperBowlLX
❤️🇺🇸🕊️
#SuperBowlLX
February 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Tonight, as Bad Bunny sings in his native Spanish, sharing the stage with Californian punk rockers, Green Day, I'll reminisce growing up in a bilingual, immigrant family. I'll ponder the beauty and genius of America; a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages.
❤️🇺🇸🕊️
#SuperBowlLX
❤️🇺🇸🕊️
#SuperBowlLX