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A Grey painting from 2008 is finished with a spool of black spray-gunned lines, given a gothic spikiness by a filigree of drips down their length, masterfully controlled. At first I preferred this one to the 2007 Grey painting from the Tate which hangs alongside and seems quieter, more deferential, the result of a moment of scrubbing out rather than building up. Yet backing up around the Guggenheim spiral, the Tate work begins to hold itself in a fuller, more interesting way, unravelling its message in its own time. Is Wool???s work any good? Is this some joyless endgame of painting, or are these elegant, intellectually challenging images? Either way they seem to capture the hard, unsentimental energy of New York, with its ecstatic highs and suicidal lows. And that isn???t bad going.