It was a big night for the off-kilter appeal of “Kimberly Akimbo,” the nonbinary winners Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee, and try-hard musical-theatre-kid energy.
The photographer Siân Davey said, of her family’s plot in the South of England, “It felt like the potential for the whole world was held in that garden.”
The prolific artist knows that contemporary Blackness, made and unmade on the stage of capitalism, is as much defined by its spiritual reckonings as it is by the elemental stuff.
The kinky hookups between the protagonists, played by Lily-Rose Depp and the Weeknd, are wince-inducing, but hardly scandalizing in the way that the HBO show intends them to be.