The Unfashionability of AIDS Artery asked a museum director, an artist, an organization head, and a professor and writer to consider the "fashionability" of AIDS-arts today--that is its current reception versus that of the past. Imagine a (virtual) panel discussion at which the moderator introduces the symposium with the following comments: "It's often noted that AIDS organizations and people with AIDS--at least in the U.S.--receive less and less support. But when it comes to arts about AIDS that seems too simple a characterization. After all, the arts and society don't always march in lock-step: A woman's right to choose or recent political activism about the World Trade Organization or the International Monetary Fund, have not yielded major oupourings of art. How can we think more deeply about the unfashionability of AIDS in the arts now? First of all, does it exist? If so, is it a generational issue? Do the arts today demand novelty, rather than relevance? Do they favor user-friendliness over the power to disturb? Is this part of a large social trend to mold us into passive spectators, rather than active agents? Into consumers, rather than makers, of culture? Or should this issued be addressed from the opposite perspective: That is, why the tremendous outpouring of AIDS-arts in the first place? And now for the "panelists'" - David Román, Steed Taylor, Barbara Hunt and Thomas Sokolowski. We hope that their thoughtful and provocative responses will inspire those of you in the virtual audience to respond, as well. To do so, click the "Send to the Visitor Forum". Visit Artery's Symposium on AIDS - Arts Today.