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
Pinned
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
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“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.
"In each picture is a whole lifetime imprisoned, a whole lifetime of fears, doubts, hopes, and joys. Whither is this lifetime tending?"
— Wassily Kandinsky, 1910.
Composition 8, 1923
Oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 The Marginalian
— Wassily Kandinsky, 1910.
Composition 8, 1923
Oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 The Marginalian
February 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
"In each picture is a whole lifetime imprisoned, a whole lifetime of fears, doubts, hopes, and joys. Whither is this lifetime tending?"
— Wassily Kandinsky, 1910.
Composition 8, 1923
Oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 The Marginalian
— Wassily Kandinsky, 1910.
Composition 8, 1923
Oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 The Marginalian
"A dainty Vörösbegy (European robin), perched on a branch in the Hungarian countryside."
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📷 Photo by Erika Nyúl©️ | Erdei Utakon
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📷 Photo by Erika Nyúl©️ | Erdei Utakon
February 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
"A dainty Vörösbegy (European robin), perched on a branch in the Hungarian countryside."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Erika Nyúl©️ | Erdei Utakon
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📷 Photo by Erika Nyúl©️ | Erdei Utakon
René Magritte, Belgian painter, 1898-1967.
L'Empire des lumières, The Empire of Light, 1954.
Oil on canvas, gouache on paper.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
L'Empire des lumières, The Empire of Light, 1954.
Oil on canvas, gouache on paper.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
February 6, 2026 at 6:52 PM
René Magritte, Belgian painter, 1898-1967.
L'Empire des lumières, The Empire of Light, 1954.
Oil on canvas, gouache on paper.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
L'Empire des lumières, The Empire of Light, 1954.
Oil on canvas, gouache on paper.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
"Burning sunrise at the windmills of Kinderdijk yesterday morning, in the Netherlands' South Holland province."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Albert Dros©️
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📷 Photo by Albert Dros©️
February 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM
"Burning sunrise at the windmills of Kinderdijk yesterday morning, in the Netherlands' South Holland province."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Albert Dros©️
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📷 Photo by Albert Dros©️
“If you keep your heart open, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”
— Rumi, 1207–1273 CE.
South Korean-German classical violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs Andante, Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto, composed in 1844.
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— Rumi, 1207–1273 CE.
South Korean-German classical violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs Andante, Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto, composed in 1844.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
February 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
“If you keep your heart open, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”
— Rumi, 1207–1273 CE.
South Korean-German classical violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs Andante, Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto, composed in 1844.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
— Rumi, 1207–1273 CE.
South Korean-German classical violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs Andante, Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto, composed in 1844.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
Rest in Peace, legend.
Béla Tarr
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetery
Béla Tarr
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetery
February 6, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Rest in Peace, legend.
Béla Tarr
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetery
Béla Tarr
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetery
I came. I wept. One of the great artists and visionaries of our time, is gone. His films remain, in perpetuity.
Béla Tarr, Hungarian filmmaker
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetary
Béla Tarr, Hungarian filmmaker
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetary
February 6, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I came. I wept. One of the great artists and visionaries of our time, is gone. His films remain, in perpetuity.
Béla Tarr, Hungarian filmmaker
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetary
Béla Tarr, Hungarian filmmaker
1955-2026
🤍🕯️🕊️
📷 Budapest Fiumei Cemetary
Sending a warmhearted shout-out to my new followers from Poland 🇵🇱 .
As a Hungarian-American born stateside to an immigrant family fleeing Soviet persecution, and inspired by Lech Wałęsa & Solidarność, it is an honor and a privilege to meet you.
To better days ahead.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
As a Hungarian-American born stateside to an immigrant family fleeing Soviet persecution, and inspired by Lech Wałęsa & Solidarność, it is an honor and a privilege to meet you.
To better days ahead.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
February 6, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Sending a warmhearted shout-out to my new followers from Poland 🇵🇱 .
As a Hungarian-American born stateside to an immigrant family fleeing Soviet persecution, and inspired by Lech Wałęsa & Solidarność, it is an honor and a privilege to meet you.
To better days ahead.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
As a Hungarian-American born stateside to an immigrant family fleeing Soviet persecution, and inspired by Lech Wałęsa & Solidarność, it is an honor and a privilege to meet you.
To better days ahead.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
If you haven’t heard, US Ambassador to Poland, Tom Rose, is an abject, raging, one-man clown show.
I beg our cherished friends and allies, the wonderful people of Poland 🇵🇱 , to forgive us.
🚫🤡
#AmericanDystopia
I beg our cherished friends and allies, the wonderful people of Poland 🇵🇱 , to forgive us.
🚫🤡
#AmericanDystopia
February 6, 2026 at 1:12 AM
If you haven’t heard, US Ambassador to Poland, Tom Rose, is an abject, raging, one-man clown show.
I beg our cherished friends and allies, the wonderful people of Poland 🇵🇱 , to forgive us.
🚫🤡
#AmericanDystopia
I beg our cherished friends and allies, the wonderful people of Poland 🇵🇱 , to forgive us.
🚫🤡
#AmericanDystopia
“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985.
Argentine-Israeli classical pianist Daniel Barenboim performs Adagio sostenuto, Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 14, composed in 1801.
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― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985.
Argentine-Israeli classical pianist Daniel Barenboim performs Adagio sostenuto, Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 14, composed in 1801.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
February 5, 2026 at 10:05 PM
“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985.
Argentine-Israeli classical pianist Daniel Barenboim performs Adagio sostenuto, Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 14, composed in 1801.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985.
Argentine-Israeli classical pianist Daniel Barenboim performs Adagio sostenuto, Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 14, composed in 1801.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1880.
The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy, built in 432 CE.
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📷 Photo by Salvatore Piccolo©️ | Painting and Fine Arts
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1880.
The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy, built in 432 CE.
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📷 Photo by Salvatore Piccolo©️ | Painting and Fine Arts
February 5, 2026 at 9:29 PM
"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1880.
The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy, built in 432 CE.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Salvatore Piccolo©️ | Painting and Fine Arts
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1880.
The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy, built in 432 CE.
🙏🏻🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Salvatore Piccolo©️ | Painting and Fine Arts
"The sheltering sky at dawn in Mazunte, Mexico."
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📷 Photo by Janica Acinaj©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society
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📷 Photo by Janica Acinaj©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society
February 5, 2026 at 8:20 PM
"The sheltering sky at dawn in Mazunte, Mexico."
🙏🏻🌎🕊️
📷 Photo by Janica Acinaj©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society
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📷 Photo by Janica Acinaj©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society
So honored, and humbled, to attend the funeral of legendary Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr tomorrow in Budapest.
His deeply spiritual films had a profound impact on me, and so many, around the world.
Nobel Prize-winning novelist László Krasznahorkai will be giving the eulogy. 🕯️
His deeply spiritual films had a profound impact on me, and so many, around the world.
Nobel Prize-winning novelist László Krasznahorkai will be giving the eulogy. 🕯️
February 5, 2026 at 8:05 PM
So honored, and humbled, to attend the funeral of legendary Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr tomorrow in Budapest.
His deeply spiritual films had a profound impact on me, and so many, around the world.
Nobel Prize-winning novelist László Krasznahorkai will be giving the eulogy. 🕯️
His deeply spiritual films had a profound impact on me, and so many, around the world.
Nobel Prize-winning novelist László Krasznahorkai will be giving the eulogy. 🕯️
"Gentle, calming pastel colors... on a cold morning near the small village of Gelej, in northeastern Hungary."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by István Baggins©️
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📷 Photo by István Baggins©️
February 5, 2026 at 6:31 PM
"Gentle, calming pastel colors... on a cold morning near the small village of Gelej, in northeastern Hungary."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by István Baggins©️
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by István Baggins©️
Tsuchiya Koitsu, Japanese artist, 1870-1949.
Mount Fuji and Shoji Lake, 1934.
Woodblock print.
"Lone boat sails on clear Shoji Lake. Majestic Mt. Fuji, shrouded in purple mist, towers in the background."
🙏🏼🌏🕊️
📷 Ukiyo-e©️ | Arte in Giappone
Mount Fuji and Shoji Lake, 1934.
Woodblock print.
"Lone boat sails on clear Shoji Lake. Majestic Mt. Fuji, shrouded in purple mist, towers in the background."
🙏🏼🌏🕊️
📷 Ukiyo-e©️ | Arte in Giappone
February 5, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Tsuchiya Koitsu, Japanese artist, 1870-1949.
Mount Fuji and Shoji Lake, 1934.
Woodblock print.
"Lone boat sails on clear Shoji Lake. Majestic Mt. Fuji, shrouded in purple mist, towers in the background."
🙏🏼🌏🕊️
📷 Ukiyo-e©️ | Arte in Giappone
Mount Fuji and Shoji Lake, 1934.
Woodblock print.
"Lone boat sails on clear Shoji Lake. Majestic Mt. Fuji, shrouded in purple mist, towers in the background."
🙏🏼🌏🕊️
📷 Ukiyo-e©️ | Arte in Giappone
"Beautiful residential building at Teréz körút 32 in Budapest’s 6th district, designed and built in 1886-1887 by German‑born architect, Henrik Schmahl."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Buildings Tell Tales©️
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Buildings Tell Tales©️
February 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
"Beautiful residential building at Teréz körút 32 in Budapest’s 6th district, designed and built in 1886-1887 by German‑born architect, Henrik Schmahl."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Buildings Tell Tales©️
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Buildings Tell Tales©️
Cancelled my @washingtonpost.com subscription.
If Jeff Bezos is not interested in upkeeping the legendary American newspaper, founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins, then I'm not interested in lining the pockets of a wretched oligarch.
Such a sad day for the 4th Estate.
❤️🩹🇺🇸🕯️
If Jeff Bezos is not interested in upkeeping the legendary American newspaper, founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins, then I'm not interested in lining the pockets of a wretched oligarch.
Such a sad day for the 4th Estate.
❤️🩹🇺🇸🕯️
February 5, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Cancelled my @washingtonpost.com subscription.
If Jeff Bezos is not interested in upkeeping the legendary American newspaper, founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins, then I'm not interested in lining the pockets of a wretched oligarch.
Such a sad day for the 4th Estate.
❤️🩹🇺🇸🕯️
If Jeff Bezos is not interested in upkeeping the legendary American newspaper, founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins, then I'm not interested in lining the pockets of a wretched oligarch.
Such a sad day for the 4th Estate.
❤️🩹🇺🇸🕯️
"Basilica of San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador 🇪🇨. The monastery complex, the largest architectural ensemble among historical structures of colonial Latin America, was completed in the 17th century, constructed over the span of 150 years."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Wikipedia | Painting & Fine Arts
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Wikipedia | Painting & Fine Arts
February 5, 2026 at 10:49 AM
"Basilica of San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador 🇪🇨. The monastery complex, the largest architectural ensemble among historical structures of colonial Latin America, was completed in the 17th century, constructed over the span of 150 years."
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Wikipedia | Painting & Fine Arts
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 Wikipedia | Painting & Fine Arts
Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter, 1830-1902.
The Falls of Saint Anthony, circa 1887.
Oil on canvas.
Private collection.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 David Smith | The Hudson River School of Painters
The Falls of Saint Anthony, circa 1887.
Oil on canvas.
Private collection.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 David Smith | The Hudson River School of Painters
February 4, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter, 1830-1902.
The Falls of Saint Anthony, circa 1887.
Oil on canvas.
Private collection.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 David Smith | The Hudson River School of Painters
The Falls of Saint Anthony, circa 1887.
Oil on canvas.
Private collection.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
📷 David Smith | The Hudson River School of Painters
"This is happiness. I cannot wish for anything better. I feel profoundly grateful to my life, which gives me so much".
— Agnes, journal entry.
🎞️ Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers, 1972.
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— Agnes, journal entry.
🎞️ Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers, 1972.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:49 PM
"This is happiness. I cannot wish for anything better. I feel profoundly grateful to my life, which gives me so much".
— Agnes, journal entry.
🎞️ Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers, 1972.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
— Agnes, journal entry.
🎞️ Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers, 1972.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
"Detail of Gustav Klimt's wall painting from the stairway of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria."
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📷 Kunsthistorisches Museum | Painting and Fine Arts
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📷 Kunsthistorisches Museum | Painting and Fine Arts
February 4, 2026 at 6:35 PM
"Detail of Gustav Klimt's wall painting from the stairway of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Kunsthistorisches Museum | Painting and Fine Arts
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📷 Kunsthistorisches Museum | Painting and Fine Arts
"I am a Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. I have a question."
— Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social
❤️🩹🕯️🕊️
📷 Photo by Liz Lander©️
— Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social
❤️🩹🕯️🕊️
📷 Photo by Liz Lander©️
February 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM
"I am a Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. I have a question."
— Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social
❤️🩹🕯️🕊️
📷 Photo by Liz Lander©️
— Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social
❤️🩹🕯️🕊️
📷 Photo by Liz Lander©️
Guardians of the Galaxy... on the outer wall of the snow-kissed Tata Castle, built in the mid 14th-century on the northern tip of the Old Lake in Tata, Hungary.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Wanda Mazalin©️ | Szeretlek Tata
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📷 Photo by Wanda Mazalin©️ | Szeretlek Tata
February 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy... on the outer wall of the snow-kissed Tata Castle, built in the mid 14th-century on the northern tip of the Old Lake in Tata, Hungary.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Wanda Mazalin©️ | Szeretlek Tata
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Wanda Mazalin©️ | Szeretlek Tata
This may be my favorite television commercial ever, from legendary Scandinavian Airlines @flysas.com.
This is the world how I imagine it, this is the world I want to live in.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
#PeaceOnEarth
This is the world how I imagine it, this is the world I want to live in.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
#PeaceOnEarth
February 4, 2026 at 2:14 PM
This may be my favorite television commercial ever, from legendary Scandinavian Airlines @flysas.com.
This is the world how I imagine it, this is the world I want to live in.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
#PeaceOnEarth
This is the world how I imagine it, this is the world I want to live in.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
#PeaceOnEarth
"Country Road, Viadana, Mantova, Italy."
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📷 Photo by Paolo Belloni©️
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📷 Photo by Paolo Belloni©️
February 4, 2026 at 2:04 PM
"Country Road, Viadana, Mantova, Italy."
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Photo by Paolo Belloni©️
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📷 Photo by Paolo Belloni©️