Variety says that NARAS’ monument to itself opens in LA on Saturday. The Grammys are a chaotic and corrupt institution that has missed honoring most great artists of the past 50 years and spent untold time and money lauding the evanescent and dumb. As I noted earlier this year, the Amy Winehart Winehouse show was one of the oddest in the institution’s history, in that it actually gave awards to arguably the best recorded work of the year. But that can’t make up for the decades the group has spent dumping statuettes on the likes of Christopher Cross and Lionel Richie and missing the best work of everyone from the Stones, Dylan, Neil Young, Sly Stone, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s to the likes of Nirvana in the modern era.

The museum, of course, won’t mention facts like that. If it did, it would have to build a special hall for one of its most honored acts of the 1960s, the Swingle Singers.

In an effort to prop up support for its annual award show, which has been experiencing plummeting ratings and causing some corresponding plummeting in the group’s bottom line, NARAS is trying out a nomination show, which is scheduled for Wednesday evening on CBS, featuring timeless stars like John Mayer, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion. Hip hop will be represented by the cuddly LL Cool J., and rock by the cuddly, betoothed Foo Fighters.