Over a hundred guests at the opening yesterday of #PastsRevisited. So many stories to share. Here’s one: featured in the exhibit is original the desk and chair Renato used as a young writer. The first book you’ll see is Vestiges of War, which was put together by Angel Velasco Shaw, the beaming woman in the photo with the foundation’s managing director Red Constantino. Red describes the book as “both might and beautiful the way it wove together art, history, and culture, politics driven by the book’s subject – the Philippine-American War and the aftermath of an imperial dream spanning 1899 to 1999.” It contains works by some of the country’s most acclaimed painters and essays by writers such as Rene Ontal, including The Miseducation of the Filipino by Renato Constantino, who was in a discussion with Angel Shaw for the making of this book.