A portrait of the collector

BEIJING - At Zhang Rui's recently opened hotel, new-media art reigns supreme. The entire ground floor and lobby is so cluttered that Rui had to navigate around sculptures, video and light installations, a large, smashed electronic signpost, and a scale model of a traditional Chinese building with dead crickets scattered around just to get to this interview (not to mention the small crowd of businessmen eager to butter him up). In short, it's the stuff the art collector had in mind for his hotel, the aptly named Gallery.