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©️

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

"Holendrechterweg, Netherlands." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Spaski Schippers©️ | Cloud Appreciation Society

Ellen Louise Clacy, British painter, 1853–1916. The Return of the Prodigal Daughter in the Year of the Great Plague, 1887. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Annan Museum, Scotland | Virtual Art Museum

"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement." — Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013 Renowned Italian conductor Claudio Abbado and Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform the beautiful, breathtaking ending of Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3, composed in 1896. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"Popocatepelt vulkán, Mexikó." The ultimate act of faith, building this church, at this specific location. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 From Medárd©️

"Icefalls ... Haffner Canyon in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photo by Jon Handforth©️

On the eve of what would have been his 90th birthday, my heart is filled with gratitude and appreciation for my late father, Szabolcs Soby Kalman. He lived an exemplary life, on both sides of the Atlantic. May he rest in eternal peace. February 9, 1936 - April 9, 2024. 🤍🕯️🕊️

Elizabeth Lee Miller, American photographer, 1907–1977. "A successful model in New York in the 1920s before moving to Paris, Lee Miller became an established fashion and art photographer, and an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue during WWII." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Fotograficamente©️

"We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths." — Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021. Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden perform Adagio, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2, composed in 1907. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"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

"A dainty Vörösbegy (European robin), perched on a branch in the Hungarian countryside." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 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

"Burning sunrise at the windmills of Kinderdijk yesterday morning, in the Netherlands' South Holland province." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 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. 🙏🏻🌍🕊️

Rest in Peace, legend. 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

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. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

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

“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. 🙏🏻🌍🕊️

"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

"The sheltering sky at dawn in Mazunte, Mexico." 🙏🏻🌎🕊️ 📷 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. 🕯️

"Gentle, calming pastel colors... on a cold morning near the small village of Gelej, in northeastern Hungary." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 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

"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©️

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. ❤️‍🩹🇺🇸🕯️

"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

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

"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. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"Detail of Gustav Klimt's wall painting from the stairway of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 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©️

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

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

"Country Road, Viadana, Mantova, Italy." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Paolo Belloni©️

History, despite its wrenching pain Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again. ― Maya Angelou, American poet, 1993. Ukrainian concert pianist Anna Fedorova performs Alexander Scriabin, Piano Sonata No. 2, composed in 1898. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"We all know Martin Luther King Jr.⁠'s famous 'I Have a Dream Speech' but not about the man who went after him." Commemorating #BlackHistoryMonth with the forever-brilliant Key & Peele. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 blex_media©️

My left arm is numb from war in Ukraine. My right arm is numb from crackdown on Iranian protestors. Torso is numb from ICE treachery stateside. Head is numb from Epstein files. Left leg is numb from belligerent US foreign policy. Right leg is numb from spreading autocracy. ❤️‍🩹🌍

Léon Spilliaert, Belgian draughtsman, illustrator, lithographer and painter, 1881-1946. Boomtakken, 1940. Gouache on paper. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Mu.ZEE Museum, Ostend, Belgium

Winter is baaaack in Budapest. 🤍❄️☃️

"Quiet solitude at the Fényes Nature Reserve, a series of wetlands fed by clear, karst springs, in Tata, Hungary." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Krisztina Haraszti©️ | Szeretlek Tata

"Kolugljúfur, Iceland." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Bragi Kort©️

"Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” ― Pema Chödrön, American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, teacher. Claudio Abbado and Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform VI. Langsam "What Love Tells Me," Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3, composed in 1896. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

"The Orange-breasted Fruiteater (Pipreola jucunda) is native to Colombia and Ecuador. Plucks berries at mid-levels in the forest; often found in pairs. Gives very high-pitched whistles, some very short, others long & drawn out." 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Photo by Daniel Mideros©️ | Wondershots

"My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense." — Coretta Scott King, 1927-2006. Dutch conductor Van Veldhoven and The Netherlands Bach Society perform Herr unser Herrsche, Johann Sebastian Bach, St. John Passion, composed in 1723. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

All of this. "A team of emotional support dogs, including a French bulldog named Mamut and a dachshund named Delta, greet passengers and ease tensions at Felipe Angeles International Airport in Mexico as part of a stress-relief program introduced by airport officials." 🙏🏼💝🕊️

My heart breaks, my soul is crushed for the underage victims who were trapped in the evil, perverse death grip of the richest, most powerful men in America. The level of abuse is unspeakable and gut-wrenching. Trump must be removed from office immediately. #EpsteinTrumpFiles

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” — Buddha, 563–483 BCE From Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Vienna Philharmonic perform Adagio, Samuel Barber, String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11, composed in 1936. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

Peder Mørk Mønsted, Danish painter, 1859-1941. To unge mennesker i en robåd på Sæby Å. (Two young persons in a rowing boat on Sæby Å), 1913. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Marianne Gram Hansen | Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers

"Winter wonderland. Højstrup, Stevns, Denmark." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Rudy Hemmingsen©️