Here's an interesting conceptual art metaphor from a recent NY TIMES book review:
KELLY COYNE and Erik Knutzen… proselytize for a more self-reliant household in their new book, “Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World,” just published by Rodale.
The couple met at the University of California, San Diego, where Ms. Coyne had wandered into the dense thickets of conceptual art.
“By the time I graduated, I didn’t have any use for it anymore,” she said. “A graduate degree in art is a good way to get anyone to stop making art.”